French: ast'heureEnglish translation: at this time 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | ast'heure | | English translation: | at this time | | Entered by: | Drmanu49 |
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General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / Trial Transcript | | French term or phrase: ast'heure | A petitioner of the court, stating that material he thought he had a right to was sold to another company.
Canadian French
"...qui sont venus me voir en février avec [compagnie] pour m'exposer le problème, dire...que le matériel était à eux autres avant...**ast'heure,** puis que si je voulais continuer de travailler avec eux autres, je pouvais préparer le métal, sinon ils prenaient quelqu'un d'autre."
Do you think they just mean"à l'heure?"
Merci!
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| | Clarification request(s) and responseMartin Cassell: 11:17am May 19, 2008: Try searching for «ast'heure» here: http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/fichier/recherchecitations.asp
You'll find any number of examples (in fact about 72) of it in use in québecois.
Mary Carroll Richer LaFlèche: 2:04pm May 19, 2008: are there words missing in the phrase where you put...?
femme: 2:11pm May 19, 2008: Thank you, Martin.
And Mary, this is a trial transcript and this was just one of the numerous pauses in the speaker's verbal ramblings, so no words are actually missing in my context here (based on the document I'm working from).
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| | at this time | Explanation:
IMO
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Note added at 25 mins (2008-05-19 00:02:59 GMT)
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or now.
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Note added at 37 mins (2008-05-19 00:14:32 GMT)
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or also presently. |
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Drmanu49
France
| Note from asker to answererMerci, Drmanu49!
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| See.
Explanation:
The two suggestions are all right, but in this context, I think, it's:
Well...
Right?
You know...
Isn'it?
You know what I mean..., etc.
Because "dire...que le matériel était à eux autres avant... ast'heure," doesn't make any sense.
| Juan Jacob
Mexico
Native speaker of:  Spanish, French
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| maintenant
Explanation:
contraction de: "à cette heure"
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Note added at 26 mins (2008-05-19 00:03:44 GMT)
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"now"
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Note added at 33 mins (2008-05-19 00:11:14 GMT)
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before now... or now they say...
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